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	HP's CEO says layoffs critical to company's health Hewlett-Packard plans to cut 9,000 people by Oct. 31, and 27,000 overall by the end of 2014, as part of a multi-year turnaround plan Read More WHITE PAPER: Qumu Understand The Importance Of Dedicated Storage For Video Learn how to deliver live video streaming, embed video excerpts on any page, link videos to other relevant content and add video to employee social communications - all within SharePoint. Read now! In this Issue Cellphone vibration syndrome and other signs of tech addiction Most jurors sided with Google on APIs and 'fair use' Supercomputer to connect to 400PB of storage via Ethernet HP to cut 27,000 jobs Apple claims US government sides with monopoly in e-book case Yahoo launches stand-alone mobile search app McAfee reports big spike in malware CIOs will soon blend non-tech, traditional IT roles Sony pulls out of LCD JV with Sharp, gets $126M back Wolfram unveils system modeling tool IT Blogwatch: Google wins again vs. Oracle: No patent probs. RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Good Technology Maximize Mobile Choices for Employees Is a tidal wave of consumer mobile devices flooding your workplace? You're not alone. Most IT professionals are under pressure from mobile professionals, who have a strong preference for Bring Your Own Device or BYOD. Rather than fight the growing tide, smart IT is looking for ways to give employees greater mobility, while minimizing risk and cost. Click to continue Cellphone vibration syndrome and other signs of tech addiction There's a growing body of research on phantom cellphone vibrations and the other problems associated with technology obsession, and leading the way is Larry Rosen, the author of iDisorder. IN this Q&A, Rosen talked about how addicted we've become and what we can do about it. Read More Most jurors sided with Google on APIs and 'fair use' Most of the jurors in the Oracle v Google trial thought Google's use of 37 Java APIs in Android should be allowed under the doctrine of fair use, one of the jurors revealed Wednesday after the trial had ended. Read More Supercomputer to connect to 400PB of storage via Ethernet The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has chosen a massive tape library and disk array system to support of Blue Waters, one of the world's largest supercomputers. Read More HP to cut 27,000 jobs Hewlett-Packard will trim 27,000 employees as part of its long-term restructuring plan, the company said Wednesday when it announced quarterly financial results. Read More Apple claims US government sides with monopoly in e-book case The U.S. government has sided with monopoly rather than competition in bringing a case of e-book price-fixing against Apple, the company said in a filing on Tuesday before a federal court. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Good Technology Maximize Mobile Choices for Employees Is a tidal wave of consumer mobile devices flooding your workplace? You're not alone. Most IT professionals are under pressure from mobile professionals, who have a strong preference for Bring Your Own Device or BYOD. Rather than fight the growing tide, smart IT is looking for ways to give employees greater mobility, while minimizing risk and cost. Click to continue Yahoo launches stand-alone mobile search app Yahoo beefed up its search offerings on Wednesday when it launched Axis, an HTML5-based browser app that delivers search results as page previews rather than as links. Read More McAfee reports big spike in malware PC malware had its "busiest quarter in recent history," according to McAfee's quarterly security report released Wednesday. Read More CIOs will soon blend non-tech, traditional IT roles Next-generation CIOs will have to consider how technology affects other corporate departments as well as handle traditional IT management functions, especially those accompanying mobile device management and greater data analysis, according to panelists who spoke at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Read More Sony pulls out of LCD JV with Sharp, gets $126M back Sony said Thursday it will pull out of its over three-year LCD TV panel joint venture with Sharp, which had been part of its ongoing attempts to reform its foundering TV business. Read More Wolfram unveils system modeling tool Expanding beyond its scientific and engineering number-crunching software, Mathematica maker Wolfram Research released a desktop application for full-scale system modeling and simulation. Read More IT Blogwatch: Google wins again vs. Oracle: No patent probs. In the case of Oracle v Google, the latter has prevailed -- at least, as far as the jury is concerned. There was no Java patent infringement in Android, said the men and women who performed the service. Now we wait to find out if APIs are even copyrightable at all. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers go back for second-helpings of popcorn. Read More
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